Lebanon High TSA

I found a great project, probably for Electronic Research and Experimentation, you can find it here. Any way it is worth a look for anyone interested in straighting up their desk area from all those cords.

When you are thinking about making a project for one of the TSA contests, many people ask me what they should do? My answer most of the time is “What do you want to do?” Most people will say “I don’t know.”

How do you know what to do? What interests you? What would you like to see happen? Still don’t know?

I would suggest that you look over the following links. Make Magazine and Instructables are a good source of ideas that people have come up with to improve their life. In addition it gives step by step instructions on how to do the projects mentioned. Just read down thru the list of items people have made and find something that interests you. Then begin to formulate a plan to make something of your own. Just be sure to document what you do.

I recently read an article on one of my must read blogs. It detailed getting why getting an A is better than getting an A+. I think this will be of great benefit to those of you wanting to prepare for your projects.

Is it better to get an A or an A+? Most people instinctively react with an A+. As I’d like to show in this article, that isn’t always the case. Being perfect can cost far more than good enough. Also, as I’d like to demonstrate, the habits that might get you an A+ might also leave you with a B or C if you fail to optimize.

I’ve never been a perfectionist. I’ve always been aware of the costs of going beyond good enough. Despite this seemingly poor attitude towards work, it hasn’t hurt me in the slightest. By optimizing instead of attempting perfection, I’ve managed to maintain a grade hovering between an A and A+.

How Optimizing Works

The traditional studying approach is to learn everything perfectly and with equal force. I believe this approach will only lead to a nervous breakdown.

An optimizing approach says that learning everything perfectly is impossible. However, by investing more time on critical details and less time on unimportant ones you can get a better grade with less time invested.

Read the rest of the article here.